Bookkeeper, Project Accountant

Job description Job Title: Full-Charge Bookkeeper / Project Accountant

$30.00 - $38.50 per hour (Based on experience and live assessment verification) Job Type: Full-time, Permanent About Our Company We are a premier, trusted commercial refrigeration and food equipment service company. We specialize in the sales, installation, maintenance, and repair of heavy industrial appliances for corporate facilities, institutions, and major restaurant groups. Our brand is built on reliability, absolute precision, and elite operational execution. As we expand our regional footprint, we are seeking a self-motivated, fiercely organized Full-Charge Bookkeeper / Project Accountant to serve as the definitive financial anchor of our office. Reporting directly to the business ownership team, you will completely own our daily transactional workflows, manage corporate job costing data, and protect company cash flow. Why Elite Accounting Professionals Choose Our Team

• High Autonomy: Own your department without a corporate bureaucracy micromanaging your day.
• Recession-Proof Industry: Infrastructure maintenance remains consistently resilient, providing long-term career and financial stability.
• Premium Benefits Package: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance, a retirement plan, and a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) schedule.Core Responsibilities (What Success Looks Like)
• Full-Cycle Financial Management: Maintain clean, audit-ready corporate books. Manage the full vendor payment lifecycle, executing precise three-way matching and high-volume invoice coding.
• Analytical Job Costing: Partner daily with our service managers to audit labor logs, reconcile mechanical parts expenses, and calculate true project profit margins before final review.
• Billing Optimization: Generate and dispatch flawless customer invoices for service calls, multi-phase installations, and long-term county government contracts.
• Receivables & Cash Flow Protection: Monitor accounts receivable aging logs with a structured, professional, and consistent approach to maintaining strong cash velocity.
• Tax & Audit Readiness: Maintain clean, forensic documentation across all general ledger streams, ensuring our books are organized flawlessly for our external CPA tax firm. Qualifications & Experience Profiles
• QuickBooks Enterprise Mastery: Minimum of 5 years of current, hands-on, daily experience navigating and managing workflows specifically within QuickBooks Enterprise desktop/cloud systems. (Strictly Required).
• Proven Tenure: 7+ years of progressive professional experience handling full-charge books or heavy transactional project accounting.
• Industrial Sector Exposure: Background in service-oriented fields, mechanical trades, HVAC/R, or construction accounting is heavily preferred.
• Advanced Technical Tooling: High proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including a natural ease with VLOOKUPs, pivot tables, and array configurations.

Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or an equivalent business administration field. Application Evaluation Process Please note that we take data integrity seriously. All candidates moving forward to the final interview stage will be required to complete a practical, live, 20-minute QuickBooks Enterprise navigation and reconciliation assessment in our office to verify current platform mastery. Full posting: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/bookkeeper-project-accountant-at-pinnacle-restaurant-services-4443987634